hamletztz!

T’ b, or not t’ b,—tt is t qn:—
Whether is like my pretty hair to sufferzrz
T slingz & arrwzwz of infamy
Or t take armszsz against a sea of comments
And by deleting end them?—To die,—to sleep,—
No more; and by a blog to say we chioz

FYI, that is what Hamlet's famous soliloquy would look like if he had Ms Chen's concerns (and grammer/spelling).

Hear ye! Hear ye! Today ProfG shall be giving a concise lecture on our beloved Celeste's language and netiquette. First, let us examine the purpose of a blog.

"Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries... ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs"

Well, our favourite blog doesn't really seem to cover much of that, now, does it? On the other hand, I can't fault her for using it as a personal blog, because that's what I myself do; but could I please request Ms Chen writes in a format understandable to humans? It would be terribly nice if we could look at her blog and read (if not grammatical english) some words which we don't have to double back to understand.

For example, "b and i went t th lib... den b went home t change den come & meet me again". There's nothing wrong with certain shortforms or buzzwords, mind, but to have 1/5 of every sentence invisible to the human eye is a bit much, don't you think?

I'm not asking her to become a cambridge-speaking don, cos that's going overboard, but... It just takes a modicum of time to type the 'he's in the 'the's, a single key-stroke to add a 'o' to the 'to's, and a bit of effort to make her blogposts more than one-line stream-of-consciousness eruptions of fluff.

"den we fetched b from his school
den off t my house t slacked
den remus came ..
den left.."

Now, on to the wonderful subject of Netiquette. Or might I say, on to our subject's wonderful Netiquette, or lack thereof. It's not particularly terrifying, per se- at least she doesn't type in CAPS LIKE THIS or uSe StUpId StYlEs. No, I refer to her tendency to delete every remotely negative comment.

To ignore a negative comment is still passable, or to ban a user who spams flaming comments; but to prune your comments to the extent that everyone says 'you damn prettyz! i want to sex you! teach me how to do my hair!' is a bit much.

Thank god, at least, that she isn't able to spot sacarsm x) Just take a peek at her comments and bask in some of the wonderful double-meanings. No prizes to anyone who can slip in something like "I LOVE you hair! It's so... PRETTY luhh, ALL boys wanna f*** you, ALL girls wanna be you!!!! <3333"

Anyways, as per usual, FLAMERS please refer to J's nice compiled list of responses. I have to rush off to do homework now. Hmm, maybe this whole post is rubbish, because I'm "stupid elitist stuck up prick-ish"? But then again, maybe it isn't

have a nice morning,
ProfG